Valenti on Lions: "If Sam LaPorta Doesn't Play, I think they're losing"
The Valenti Show
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🗓️ 12 January 2024
⏱️ 13 minutes
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Mike starts the last show before Lions-Rams by reiterating his opinion that the Lions will lose on Sunday night.
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| 0:00.0 | All I love these nuts. |
| 0:02.8 | Thank you Kenny in a show I will not speak for RICO. It is a show I'm not sure we were ever going to be able to do. |
| 0:10.0 | I'm now in year 20 in Detroit you're 23 overall in the business. |
| 0:15.0 | We are doing a show before a home playoff game and I want to say something and I |
| 0:20.3 | I clued RICO in off air on this so no RICO hasn't disappeared I just I want to set |
| 0:26.4 | something up briefly I don't take any of this lightly like we all say it sports is not real right like |
| 0:35.8 | sports is the escape we have fun with it I'm largely irreverent I'll occasionally |
| 0:39.6 | toss a chair but generally speaking it's not real life. But with stuff like this, there are a lot of people who |
| 0:48.8 | are not going to get to see the Lions have a home playoff game, because they're not with us anymore. |
| 0:55.0 | There are entire family stories that those people thought they'll get there |
| 1:02.0 | next year. They'll be there eventually there's no way they can't |
| 1:05.6 | win a division in 10 years 20 or 30 and you arrive there you know if you're a |
| 1:11.8 | Wolverine fan you've just exercised some of the |
| 1:14.2 | demons by winning the national championship you were a Spartan fan. How many good |
| 1:18.0 | Spartans who didn't go to that Rolls Bowl in 87 weren't with us by the time the |
| 1:22.2 | team made it back? I say it to say this. There is no |
| 1:25.9 | fan base more deserving that has waited longer, that has suffered more, that has been |
| 1:32.2 | done wrong more by prior regimes and in many ways |
| 1:35.8 | the story of the lions it emulates the story of the city of Detroit it is |
| 1:39.9 | struggle and it is strife and it is life not being fair and I don't want you to think |
| 1:45.9 | any of any of what we do today is smarm like I I can tell you openly and honestly like I want this almost as bad as you want it I could |
| 1:56.8 | never want it more than you but I don't want you to think that when we begin to |
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